Nvidia (NVDA) posted another blockbuster quarter on Wednesday, as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure pushed revenue, profit and cash flow to record levels.

The chipmaker reported first-quarter revenue of $81.62 billion, up 85% from $44.06 billion a year earlier and above Wall Street estimates of $78.9 billion, according to FactSet data. Adjusted earnings came in at $1.87 per share, beating analyst expectations of $1.76 per share. The company also gave stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, forecasting revenue of roughly $91 billion.

Meanwhile, the company also moved to return more cash to shareholders. Nvidia’s board authorized an additional $80 billion in stock buybacks and raised the quarterly dividend to 25 cents per share from 1 cent previously.

However, despite the beats, positive outlook and shareholder returns, the stock was down about 1.5% at the time of publication. Investors were likely looking beyond the quarter and into the potential challenges in growth opportunities for Nvidia as competition for AI chips continued to grow.

Bitcoin miners with exposure to AI and high-performance computing infrastructure traded modestly higher following Nvidia’s earnings report. Shares of Core Scientific (CORZ) and Cipher Mining (CIFR) each rose slightly in after-hours trading as investors continued to view some miners as potential beneficiaries of growing demand for data centers, power capacity and AI computing infrastructure. IREN (IREN), which rose initially, is down about a percent.

“The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. “Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries,” he added.

Data center growth

Specifically for bitcoin miners moving towards the data center business, there was some positive news in the chipmaker’s earnings.

Nvidia’s Data Center business continued to drive growth as cloud providers, enterprises and governments expanded spending on AI infrastructure powered by the company’s chips.

Hyperscalers generated more than half of Nvidia’s $75 billion in Data Center revenue during the quarter, reaching roughly $38 billion and rising 12% from the previous quarter, CFO Colette Kress said on the company’s earnings call.

The remaining $37 billion came from a segment Nvidia now calls ACIE, which includes AI cloud providers, industrial customers and enterprise markets. Kress said AI cloud revenue more than tripled from a year earlier, as Nvidia helped rapidly expand AI computing capacity across more than 80 data centers with capacities of more than 10 megawatts.

Kress added that spending on AI infrastructure continues to accelerate, and demand for Nvidia’s computing systems remains strong. She also said Nvidia expects to generate $20 billion in CPU revenue this year.

Nvidia said its outlook does not assume any Data Center compute revenue from China, where U.S. export restrictions have limited sales of advanced AI chips.

Investors have closely watched Nvidia’s earnings for signs that spending on AI infrastructure remains strong despite growing questions about how quickly companies will turn those investments into profits.

So far, Nvidia’s results suggest demand continues to outpace expectations, which might be positive for data center providers.

As blockchain projects increasingly search for real-world utility beyond speculation, WYDE is attempting to redefine what a crypto ecosystem can accomplish through a model it calls the “Impact Exchange.”

Built around its mission-driven $EAT token, the platform combines decentralized finance, on-chain transparency, and nonprofit funding infrastructure with a long-term goal of helping fund one billion meals globally. Unlike traditional crypto projects focused purely on financial returns, WYDE routes portions of trading activity directly toward verified hunger-relief organizations through automated smart contract infrastructure.

In this interview with Crypto Breaking News, WYDE Co-Founder Martin Simms discusses the origins of the Impact Exchange model, why he believes crypto and social impact can coexist sustainably, how the project’s legal structure could influence future decentralized organizations, and why infrastructure, rather than hype, is the real long-term product.

What inspired the “Impact Exchange” model, and how is it different from a traditional crypto exchange?

Martin Simms explained that the idea behind WYDE emerged from decades spent inside traditional finance and corporate treasury systems, where he observed a recurring pattern among the most successful long-term companies.

“I’ve been fascinated by finance since I was a kid,” Simms said. “The companies that consistently outperformed weren’t the ones with the most aggressive extraction. They were the opposite. The traditional reading of fiduciary duty to the shareholder gets interpreted as a license to pull direct levers: layoffs, divestitures, cost-out. The companies that compound for twenty and thirty-year windows tend to invert that.”

According to Simms, companies such as Apple demonstrate how emotional alignment, community trust, and perceived societal value often generate stronger long-term market participation than purely financial optimization.

“When we built WYDE, the design question we kept asking was what that principle looks like applied to a market structure instead of a single company,” he said.

Simms describes the result as an entirely new type of exchange model:

“If the New York Stock Exchange is the for-profit stock exchange, WYDE is the stock market for nonprofits.”

Rather than treating charitable giving as a separate action outside the platform, the model integrates impact directly into the transaction layer itself.

“The direct trading of our vehicle adds value to every participant in the ecosystem,” Simms explained. “The community gets impact. The aligned organizations get sustainable funding. The holders get a token tied to a mission counter. Every transaction can fund impact. That’s our North Star.”

How does the $EAT token fund hunger relief in practice?

According to Simms, the experience for users remains intentionally simple.

“A user buys $EAT the same way they’d buy any token on Base,” he explained. “They connect a wallet, swap ETH for $EAT through the Uniswap pool, done.”

Behind the scenes, however, the token’s smart contract infrastructure automatically allocates a percentage of each transaction toward hunger-relief initiatives.

“Their trade pays a dynamic fee between 1% and 5%,” Simms said. “The smart contract splits that fee four ways at the moment of execution.”

Part of that fee is routed directly toward:

• Feed the Children
• community-voted local food banks
• ecosystem infrastructure
• treasury functions

“Feed the Children gets half of the cause bucket. Local food banks get the other half,” he added.

Importantly, Simms emphasized that users are not required to make separate donations or manually select charities.

“The user’s job ended at the swap. The mission infrastructure handled the rest.”

How does WYDE ensure transparency and accountability?

Simms outlined a three-layer accountability framework designed to ensure the funding flow remains publicly auditable and verifiable.

The first layer is blockchain transparency itself.

“Every fee distribution writes to Base,” Simms explained. “The cause-impact wallet, the partner wallets, the timestamps, the amounts — public record. You don’t need our word. You can audit the chain.”

The second layer involves verified nonprofit reporting.

“Feed the Children operates as a verified 501(c)(3). They receive disbursements, they convert them into meals through their existing distribution network, and they report meals delivered on a regular cadence.”

Simms noted that WYDE intentionally uses conservative conversion metrics.

“The conservative aggregate we use is $1 equals 5 meals, which is below Feeding America’s published figure. We’d rather under-promise on the conversion and over-deliver on the count.”

The third layer focuses on long-term partnership integrity.

“To qualify for token distributions at the milestone unlocks, a nonprofit partner has to remain active for at least 18 months,” he explained. “That gate exists specifically to prevent pop-up partners from extracting tokens and disappearing.”

“Real commitment, on-chain receipts, public reporting. That’s the stack.”

Is the goal of funding one billion meals realistic?

While ambitious, Simms acknowledged the target is intentionally long term rather than short-term marketing rhetoric.

“One billion is the long-horizon mission, not the year-one target,” he said.

The project’s tokenomics roadmap is tied to progressive milestones:

• 100 million meals
• 250 million meals
• 500 million meals
• 750 million meals
• 1 billion meals

Importantly, treasury and team unlocks are linked to mission progress rather than dates.

“Nobody on our side gets paid until the meals show up,” Simms explained.

Since launch in December 2025, the platform has reportedly already funded more than 45,000 meals.

Simms also highlighted recent ecosystem growth catalysts, including:

• the BitMart listing
• the upcoming $EAT Card launch
• the “Impact Summer World Tour”
• the “Hunger Cup” competition initiative

Still, he remains realistic about execution risk.

“Will we hit 1 billion in the first year? No,” Simms said. “Will we hit the first milestone of 100M? That depends on how the card adoption curve plays out, how the CEX listings perform, and whether we can keep momentum past the summer competition window.”

“We have a credible path. We don’t have a guarantee. Anyone who tells you a number this big has a guarantee is selling something.”

Why does the DUNA structure matter for decentralized organizations?

One of the more unique aspects of WYDE is its use of Wyoming’s DUNA structure, short for Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association.

According to Simms, the legal framework solves a major challenge facing decentralized mission-driven organizations.

“Before DUNA existed, you had two bad options,” he explained. “Option one: incorporate as a traditional 501(c)(3) and run the entire operation through a board, which kills the decentralization. Option two: stay structureless.”

Simms argues DUNA creates legal personhood without sacrificing decentralized governance.

“We can hold the treasury. We can sign the Feed the Children partnership agreement. We can be accountable in court.”

At the same time, governance decisions planned for 2026 can still maintain legal standing through community voting.

“DUNA gives them a real counterparty without forcing us to centralize the decision-making behind it,” he said.

Simms believes the structure may become increasingly important for future decentralized impact organizations operating at scale.

Can crypto and social impact actually coexist sustainably?

Simms acknowledged that skepticism toward “crypto philanthropy” is understandable.

“Most ‘crypto philanthropy’ is a founder writing a check after a token rally and posting the screenshot,” he said. “That’s PR with extra steps.”

However, he argues WYDE’s model differs because impact is embedded directly into transaction mechanics rather than relying on optional goodwill.

“The fee distribution doesn’t care whether a trader believes in the mission,” Simms explained.

“Whether someone is trading $EAT because they care about hunger or because they’re trying to flip it for a profit, the cause-impact wallet gets paid.”

He believes sustainability ultimately comes from usage volume and infrastructure integration.

“We’re building the volume through the card, the exchange listings, the Hunger Cup, the campus rollout,” he said. “Goodwill comes and goes. Card swipes happen every day.”

How will WYDE attract users beyond crypto-native audiences?

Simms believes the upcoming $EAT Card may become the ecosystem’s most important onboarding mechanism.

Launching June 1, 2026 through a banking partner, the card is designed to abstract away blockchain complexity entirely.

“From the user’s perspective, it’s a debit card,” Simms said.

“When they swipe it at a coffee shop, the interchange routes through our infrastructure, and a portion of that interchange buys $EAT from the pool, which triggers the same cause-impact split as any other trade.”

Users may never even realize blockchain infrastructure is operating underneath the experience.

“They never have to know what a wallet is. They never have to buy a token themselves.”

WYDE plans to initially target:

• college campuses
• ambassador programs
• Greek life competitions
• younger digitally native communities

“The blockchain runs underneath,” Simms added. “The user sees a website and a card.”

What comes next as governance launches in 2026?

According to Simms, the ecosystem’s next major evolution involves transitioning toward community governance.

“Year one was deliberately not democratic,” he said.

The decision was made intentionally to provide stability for nonprofit partnerships during the project’s early stages.

“No reputable 501(c)(3) is going to sign on if their funding can be voted away in week six.”

Following the initial 18-month stabilization period, $EAT token holders are expected to gain voting authority over:

• partner selection
• treasury deployment
• cause prioritization
• reward distribution

“The treasury holds 50 billion tokens, half the total supply, and every release is gated on meals-funded milestones rather than dates,” Simms explained.

Longer term, Simms believes the infrastructure itself may ultimately become WYDE’s most important product.

“The same fee-split contract works for healthcare, education, environment, any cause vertical with verified 501(c)(3) infrastructure to receive the funding.”

“Hunger is our proof of concept,” he concluded. “The infrastructure is the product.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve took another step toward special limited payment accounts that would give a lighter version of the master-account services the central bank offers to its fully-fledged banks, opening a comment period on the latest description of the new accounts.

Firms with diverse business models can use such accounts to clear and settle payments to increase speed and reduce their costs, but without master-account status, the Fed explained in a Wednesday statement. The central bank, which supervises and regulates its member banks, had issued a request for information in December to start crafting the concept with an initial 45-day comment period, and this approach is “substantially similar to the prototype outlined” in that effort.

Obtaining this enhanced access to the Fed’s payment rails has been a significant goal within the crypto sector, and the Fed’s earlier proposal was commonly referred to as “skinny” accounts.

“Payment account holders would not have access to intraday credit or the discount window, would not earn interest on balances held at a Reserve Bank, and would only have access to payment services with automated controls to prevent overdrafts,” the Fed said in the statement on its new proposal, which will be opened for a 60-day comment period.

But in response to comments to the Fed since December, it did overhaul parts of the idea, noting that “closing balance limits would be based on an institution’s expected payment activity and the maximum closing balance was increased.”

In March, Kraken became the first crypto bank to get a limited master account, though that access was granted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and not under a federal rule from the Fed board in Washington. The Fed said it’s now asked the regional banks to pause their consideration of certain applications while it finishes the rule.

Just a day earlier, President Donald Trump issued a related executive order that asked the Fed to review how it grants uninsured depository institutions and non-bank financial firms access to payment accounts and services. This order also requested examination on the 12 regional Fed banks acting independently of the board to set up payment accounts.

AllUnity stablecoin SEKAU is set to debut in June, backed 1:1 by Swedish krona reserves.

AllUnity, a Frankfurt-based joint venture backed by DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital, announced the SEKAU stablecoin on Wednesday. The token will be fully reserved in Swedish krona and issued under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. Final approval from German regulator BaFin is required before the June debut.

The announcement also introduced Agentic Payments, AllUnity’s infrastructure for AI-driven commerce. Businesses using the system can accept transactions initiated by autonomous software agents and settle funds directly into local bank accounts using Coinbase’s x402 standard.

“Sweden has long been a global leader in the transition toward a cashless economy, but that transition also requires a new form of digital money that is interoperable and globally accessible,” CEO Alexander Höptner said.

AllUnity adds a third European currency to its regulated stablecoin lineup

SEKAU joins AllUnity’s existing euro-backed EURAU and Swiss franc-backed CHFAU tokens, both launched within the past twelve months. AllUnity operates under a BaFin electronic money institution licence, giving it a direct regulatory pathway to distribute across the EU. The token is engineered for 24/7 settlement, cross-border payments and treasury operations targeting financial institutions and enterprise clients.

COO Peter Grosskopf said the platform is built for scale. “AllUnity is the gateway for businesses in Europe enabling them to accept, settle, and operationalize agentic payments at scale,” he said. European banks are also accelerating: a consortium of 37 lenders is building a competing MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin targeting the second half of 2026.

Why non-dollar stablecoins still struggle to gain ground

Dollar-pegged tokens account for approximately 99% of global stablecoin supply. Non-dollar issuers face a structural disadvantage: US Treasury markets offer a deeper, higher-yielding reserve base that dollar stablecoin issuers use to fund distribution and liquidity. Tokenized US government debt stands at roughly $15 billion on-chain, against just $1.4 billion for all other government bonds combined.

Twelve European banks selected Fireblocks earlier this year for a separate MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, and nine banks including UniCredit and ING are targeting a second-half 2026 debut.

AllUnity’s multi-currency model, now spanning euro, Swiss franc and Swedish krona, positions it as the broadest regulated European stablecoin issuer attempting to challenge dollar dominance.

SpaceX officially confirmed plans to go public on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could become the largest initial public offering in history and potentially push CEO Elon Musk toward becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

The rocket and satellite internet company filed its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, giving investors their first detailed look inside one of the world’s most valuable private firms ahead of a planned IPO expected next month.

SpaceX currently holds 18,712 bitcoin BTC$77,336.25 on its balance sheet, as of March 31, at a fair value of $1.29 billion, according to the filing. The company’s bitcoin holdings were valued at $1.64 billion as of Dec. 31, 2025.

“As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company also held 18,712 units of Bitcoin with a cost basis of $661 million and fair value of $1,293 million and $1,637 million, respectively,” the filing said.

At the current spot price of $77,526, the holdings would be valued at about $1.45 billion.

The holding places the company among a small group of major corporations with significant bitcoin holdings. Musk’s other company, Tesla, holds 11,509 bitcoin in its balance sheet, according to BitcoinTreasuries data. Michael Saylor’s Strategy currently holds the largest with 843,738 bitcoin.

SpaceX is reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $1.5 trillion, with reports of a potential $2 trillion. If successful, the company would immediately rank among the 10 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world, alongside Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia.

If it hits the upper end of the valuation, the listing could also surpass Saudi Aramco’s 2020 debut as the largest IPO ever. The Saudi oil giant raised $29.4 billion from investors in its public offering, valuing it at about $1.7 trillion.

Investor interest is expected to be strong because of SpaceX’s dominant position in both commercial rockets and satellite-based internet through its Starlink business. The company has built a major lead over competitors with reusable launch systems and a rapidly expanding global satellite network.

The S-1 filing offers a rare look at SpaceX’s finances, including revenue growth, capital spending, legal risks and ownership structure. Investors had closely watched the filing for clues about how much voting power Musk would retain after the company became public. The firm had 2025 revenue of $18.7 billion, up from $14 billion in 2024, the filing shows.

Musk already controls Tesla, xAI and social media platform X, making SpaceX one of the most anticipated technology listings in years. For SpaceX, Musk will be its CEO, Chief Technical Officer and Chairman of the board.

The IPO would also mark another milestone in bitcoin adoption in corporate finance, as large technology companies continue to add digital assets to their balance sheets.

Hester Peirce, a two-term commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), head of the agency’s crypto task force and known to many as “Crypto Mom,” will join the Regent University School of Law as faculty.

In a Tuesday notice from Regent University, the law school said that Peirce would join as an associate professor starting in November. Her term at the SEC officially expired in June 2025, but commissioners “may continue to serve up to approximately 18 months after terms expire if they are not replaced before then,” according to the agency.

She joined the SEC in January 2018, after her nomination by President Donald Trump and Senate confirmation in December 2017. She was confirmed for her second term in 2020. She was initially nominated by President Barack Obama for a Republican seat on the SEC in 2015, but the US Senate did not act on her nomination.

Peirce is expected to help the law school bolster its academic focus in several areas, including federal litigation, securities regulation and digital assets, according to the university.

Source: Hester Peirce

Peirce’s seat may not be filled immediately. Caroline Crenshaw, the agency’s previous Democratic commissioner, departed in January, 18 months after her term ended and no nominations to fill that seat have been made by President Trump. Peirce’s departure will leave only two Republican commissioners at the SEC: Mark Uyeda and Chair Paul Atkins.  

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Since Trump took office in January 2025, the SEC has radically changed its approach to crypto regulation and enforcement. The agency dropped several enforcement actions and investigations into crypto companies, including those tied to Trump and his family.

CFTC also faces raft of vacancies

Together, the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are the two most prominent federal financial regulators overseeing aspects of the crypto industry. Under Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig, both Trump picks, the agencies said that they would coordinate on approaches to end what they called “regulatory turf wars.”

Source: Paul Atkins

However, with a digital asset market structure bill moving through Congress, many lawmakers are calling on Trump to nominate a bipartisan group of commissioners to fully staff the agencies.

Selig remains the sole CFTC commissioner and chair in a panel intended to be made up of five people, and with the impending departure of Peirce, the SEC will be down to two out of five commissioners. Trump had not announced any nominations to either agency as of Wednesday.

The market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, is expected to shift many of the responsibilities and authority regulating crypto markets from the SEC to CFTC.

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AI search startup Exa Labs has raised $250 million in a new funding round led by Bloomberg, pushing its post-money valuation to $2.2 billion.

Exa Labs has secured $250 million in fresh financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to Bloomberg, in a deal that values the AI search startup at $2.2 billion. The round marks a sharp jump from the roughly $700 million valuation the company carried last fall, as reported by the same outlet.

The company is building search infrastructure for AI systems rather than traditional users, a business model that has gained traction as developers race to improve how large language models retrieve and process live web information. In Exa’s own words from its earlier funding announcement, the startup is building “the search engine for AIs,” framing its product as foundational infrastructure for the next wave of software.

The financing shows how quickly capital is concentrating around companies trying to reshape how information is found and served in the AI era. It also adds to a broader surge in venture investment around AI infrastructure, even as legacy search remains dominated by Google.

Valuation triples in months

The jump to a $2.2 billion valuation comes less than a year after Exa announced an earlier raise. In a September 2025 company post, Exa said it had raised $85 million to accelerate development of its AI-focused search platform, a round that valued the business at about $700 million.

That means Exa’s valuation has increased by more than three times in roughly eight months. The speed of that repricing suggests investors are no longer treating AI search as an experimental niche, but as a core layer of the emerging AI stack.

Andreessen Horowitz’s involvement is also consistent with its broader push into frontier technology. In a separate Bloomberg report from January, the venture firm was said to have raised $15 billion in its largest-ever fundraising effort, underscoring the scale of capital it now has available for AI bets.

Search beyond Google

Exa’s pitch is not that it will out-Google Google on consumer search, but that AI models need a different kind of search engine altogether. In its Series B announcement, the company argued that the world is “ready for a new type of search,” one designed for agents and models that need precise, structured, real-time retrieval.

That thesis is gaining momentum as AI applications become more dependent on current web data. In a previous crypto.news story, venture flows into emerging tech startups showed how quickly investor attention can rotate toward infrastructure plays when markets believe a platform shift is underway.

The Exa round also lands as the boundary between crypto, AI and data infrastructure keeps thinning.